Can't start Apache-SSL again

[Anthony]

Hello master,   i'm one of the web developers from Austraila. i installed Apache + SSL in my Linux server and is working fine. After read your official site document, i am trying to create a real SSL server certificate, i used the following script to create server.csr $ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 $ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr   then, create server.crt by using $ cp server.key ca.key $ openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt $ ./sign.sh server.csr   all steps above were done without error However, when i restart my apache server, the process was hang and i found the following error message from log file 11/Dec/2000 13:42:26 01166] [info] Server: Apache/1.3.12, Interface: mod_ssl/2.6.6, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.5a [11/Dec/2000 13:42:26 01166] [info] Init: 1st startup round (still not detached) [11/Dec/2000 13:42:26 01166] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library [11/Dec/2000 13:42:26 01166] [info] Init: Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aware server localhost:443 [11/Dec/2000 13:42:26 01166] [info] Init: Requesting pass phrase via builtin terminal dialog [11/Dec/2000 13:43:04 01166] [error] Init: Private key not found (OpenSSL library error follows) [11/Dec/2000 13:43:04 01166] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D084069:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_ASN1_SET:bad tag [11/Dec/2000 13:43:04 01166] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D09D082:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_RSAPrivateKey:parsing [11/Dec/2000 13:43:04 01166] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D09B00D:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_PrivateKey:ASN1 lib   Can you find tell me how the solve the problem i am facing, and i don't want to pay for the certificate.. Thanks your reply